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Today’s Topic: Patient Matching Hearing
Agenda
Time Topic
10:00 a.m. Call to Order
• Judy Sparrow, ONC
10:05 a.m. Introduction and Overview of Agenda
• Deven McGraw, Co-Chair
• Paul Egerman, Co-Chair
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Objective and Scope of this Discussion
2
Proposed Questions for the Tiger Team
3
Challenges in Patient Linking
4
Accuracy Standards
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• Accuracy and verification of address
– Requirements to use standards for data fields and formats
– Matching algorithms
– Matching accuracy
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Best Practices
• Conduct evaluations of the effectiveness of algorithms
– encourage documentation, testing, and transparency
– Common test data sets
• Solicit best practices on how organizations ensure that they have “good
data” for patient matching
– Types and attributes (structured data elements) of authoritative sources
– How trust is assured in authoritative sources
– Supplemental sources that can be used to support linking
• Recommend that organizations measure and track accuracy for
performance improvement
• Recommend transparency in algorithms
• Create a learning system/community of interest to facilitate best practices
and build on learnings and experience
• Enhance matching capabilities using biometrics or knowledge attributes
(potential research opportunity?)
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Role of ONC
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Other Thoughts…
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